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Matsusaka mayor to file suit against Cabinet decision on security

TSU, Japan - Mitsushige Yamanaka, mayor of the city of Matsusaka in the central Japan prefecture of Mie, meets the press at the city hall on July 3, 2014. The 38-year-old mayor said he is going to file a lawsuit, arguing the Cabinet decision to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense is unconstitutional.

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Matsusaka mayor to file suit against Cabinet decision on security

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken in around 2009 shows Mitsushige Yamanaka, mayor of the city of Matsusaka in the central Japan prefecture of Mie. The 38-year-old mayor said on July 3, 2014, he is going to file a lawsuit, arguing the Cabinet decision to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense is unconstitutional.

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33-yr-old mayor starts work in Matsusaka

TSU, Japan - Mayor Mitsushige Yamanaka of Matsusaka holds a welcome bouquet as he makes his way to city hall on his first day on the job on Feb. 6. Yamanaka, 33, is the youngest incumbent mayor in Japan following his Jan. 25 election victory in the Mie Prefecture city. Japan's youngest-ever mayor was a 27-year-old man who was elected in the city of Musashimurayama in Tokyo in 1994.

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Fisherman rescued in Pacific after month adrift on sea+

ISEHARA, Japan - Mitsushige Takechi (below), 50-year-old fisherman aboard a small boat, who was rescued in the Pacific on Aug. 26, about a month after he went missing following engine trouble, enters a hospital in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, later in the day.

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Arita claims gold in East Asian Games taekwondo final

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Mitsushige Arita (L) battles with Australia's Adam Wright in the men's taekwondo 80-kilogram final at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on May 21, the third day of competition at the East Asian Games. Arita downed Wright 3-1 to clinch the gold medal.

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33-yr-old mayor starts work in Matsusaka

TSU, Japan - Mayor Mitsushige Yamanaka of Matsusaka holds a welcome bouquet as he makes his way to city hall on his first day on the job on Feb. 6. Yamanaka, 33, is the youngest incumbent mayor in Japan following his Jan. 25 election victory in the Mie Prefecture city. Japan's youngest-ever mayor was a 27-year-old man who was elected in the city of Musashimurayama in Tokyo in 1994. (Kyodo)

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Matsusaka beef producers apply for Geographical Indication system

Matsusaka Mayor Mitsushige Yamanaka (2nd from R) requests farm minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (R) at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tokyo on July 6, 2015, to swiftly register the prized Matsusaka beef in the government's newly launched Geographical Indication system to protect its brand. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsubishi Heavy, Matsusaka city seal plant location accord

Yoichi Kujirai (2nd from R), senior executive vice president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., and Matsusaka Mayor Mitsushige Yamanaka (L) show documents in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on June 1, 2015, after signing a plant location accord concerning aircraft production business. MHI plans to establish an integrated production line of vertical and horizontal tails for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, a next generation regional jet, among other things. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsusaka mayor to file suit against Cabinet decision on security

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken in around 2009 shows Mitsushige Yamanaka, mayor of the city of Matsusaka in the central Japan prefecture of Mie. The 38-year-old mayor said on July 3, 2014, he is going to file a lawsuit, arguing the Cabinet decision to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense is unconstitutional. (Kyodo)

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Fisherman rescued in Pacific after month adrift on sea+

ISEHARA, Japan - Mitsushige Takechi (below), 50-year-old fisherman aboard a small boat, who was rescued in the Pacific on Aug. 26, about a month after he went missing following engine trouble, enters a hospital in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, later in the day.

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Arita claims gold in East Asian Games taekwondo final

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Mitsushige Arita (L) battles with Australia's Adam Wright in the men's taekwondo 80-kilogram final at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on May 21, the third day of competition at the East Asian Games. Arita downed Wright 3-1 to clinch the gold medal.